 Genius Lyrics
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Joy Division – A Means to an End
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[Verse 1] / A legacy so far removed / One day will be improved / Eternal rights we left behind / We were the better kind / Two the same, set free too / [Chorus] / I always looked
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Joy Division – A Means to an End [Live At Birmingham University]
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[Verse 1] / A legacy so far removed / One day will be improved / Eternal rights we left behind / We were the better kind / Two the same, set free too / [Chorus] / I always looked
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Joy Division – A Means to an End (Live)
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[Verse 1] / A legacy so far removed / One day will be improved / Eternal rights we left behind / We were the better kind / [Chorus] / Two the same, set free too / I put my trust in
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Katie Kim – A Means To An End
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A legacy so far removed / One day will be improved / Eternal rights we left behind / We were the better kind / Two the same, set free too / I always looked to you / I always looked
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Joy Division – Digital
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This song first appeared on “A Factory Sample,” the first vinyl record released by Factory Records. It was also the last song played live by Joy Division at their Birmingham
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Joy Division – Transmission
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[Intro] / Radio, live transmission / Radio, live transmission / [Verse 1] / Listen to the silence, let it ring on / Eyes, dark grey lenses frightened of the sun / We would have a
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Joy Division – Dead Souls
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An examination of the internal and external crises facing Ian Curtis, ‘Dead Souls’ opens with one of the singer’s most despairing lines: a plea for the certainty that he has
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Joy Division – Exercise One
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[Verse 1] / When you're looking at life in a strange new room / Maybe drowning soon, is this the start of it all? / Turn on your TV, turn down your pulse / Turn away from it all
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Joy Division – The Only Mistake
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Ian Curtis speaks on how a certain new relationship is similar to a previous one where he has a “tendency just to take” from a woman until the breaking point. This couple had an
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Joy Division – Glass
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[Verse 1] / Hearts fail / Young hearts fail / Anytime, pressurised / Overheat, overtired / Take it quick, take it neat / Clasp your hands, touch your feet / Take it quick, take it
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Joy Division – Disorder (Live at Birmingham University)
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I've been waiting for a guide to come and take me by the hand / Could these sensations make me feel the pleasures of a normal man? / Lose sensation spare the insults, leave them
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Joy Division – Digital (Live at Birmingham University)
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Feel it closing in / Feel it closing in / The fear of whom I call / Every time I call / I feel it closing in / I feel it closing in / Day in, day out / Day in, day out / Day in
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Joy Division – Ceremony (Live at Birmingham University, Birmingham, 2nd May 1980)
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One of the primary and captivating differences between the initial Joy Division version of ‘Ceremony’ and New Order’s take are the lyrics. Curtis’s original lyrics were never
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Joy Division – Twenty Four Hours
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[Verse 1] / So this is permanence, love's shattered pride / What once was innocence, turned on its side / A cloud hangs over me, marks every move / Deep in the memory, of what once
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Joy Division – Shadowplay [Live at Birmingham University]
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[Verse 1] / To the center of the city where all roads meet waiting for you / To the depths of the ocean where all hopes sank searching for you / I was moving through the silence
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Starchildren – Isolation
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[Verse 1] / Be clear every day, every evening / It calls here aloud from above / Carefully watched for a reason / Mistaking devotion and love / Surrendered to self-preservation
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Joy Division – Isolation (Live at Birmingham University)
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In fear every day, every evening / He calls her aloud from above / Carefully watched for a reason / Painstaking devotion and love / Surrendered to self preservation / From others
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Joy Division – Day of the Lords
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Unknown Pleasures‘ raw power is still gripping, most notably on the haunting “Day Of The Lords”, which appears to detail the horrors of war.
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Joy Division – Passover (Live at Birmingham University)
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This is a crisis, I knew had to come / Destroying the balance I'd kept / Doubting, unsettling and turning around / Wondering what will come next / Is this the role that you wanted
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Joy Division – New dawn fades (Live at Birmingham University)
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A change of speed, a change of style / A change of scene with no regrets / A chance to watch, admire the distance / Still occupied though you forget / Different colors, different
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Joy Division – Ice Age
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One of the first and most punk-oriented songs in the Joy Division catalogue, it was written and first recorded when the band was still called Warsaw. The nuclear war theme would
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Joy Division – Decades [Live At Birmingham University]
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[Verse 1] / Here are the young men, the weight on their shoulders / Here are the young men, well where have they been? / We knocked on the doors of hell's darker chamber / Pushed
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Versus – Twenty Four Hours
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[Verse 1] / So this is permanence, love-shattered pride / What once was innocence, turned on its side / A cloud hangs over me, marks every move / Deep in the memory, of what once
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Honeymoon Stitch – Day of the Lords
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[Verse 1] / This is the room, the start of it all / No portrait so fine, only sheets on the wall / I've seen the nights filled with bloodsport and pain / And the bodies obtained
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Joy Division – Transmission (Live at Birmingham University)
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[Intro] / Radio, live transmission / Radio, live transmission / [Verse 1] / Listen to the silence, let it ring on / Eyes, dark grey lenses frightened of the sun / We would have a
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Further – Insight
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[Verse 1] / Guess your dreams always end / They don't rise up, just descend / But I don't care anymore / I've lost the will to want more / I'm not afraid not at all / I watch them
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Versus (New York) – Twenty Four Hours
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So is it permanent? Love's shattered pride / What once was innocence, turned on its side / A cloud hangs over me, marks every move / Deep in the memory of what once was love. Love
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Joy Division – Walked in Line
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Ian Curtis, Stephen Morris, Peter Hook and Bernard Sumner settled stated that all their fathers had fought in World War II. That’s why
Joy Division talks a lot about Nazism in
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Joy Division – Sister Ray (Live at Moonlight Club)
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Jimmy came from Carolina / Wants a way to earn a dollar / Says he's suffering with a fever / Just like Sister Ray says / I'm searching for my mainline / I couldn't hit it sideways
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Joy Division – The Sound of Music
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[Verse 1] / See my true reflection cut off my own connections / I can see life getting harder / So sad is this sensation, reverse the situation / I can't see it getting better / [
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Joy Division – Something Must Break
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[Intro] / One, two, three, four / [Verse 1] / Two ways to choose / A razor's edge / Remain behind / Go straight ahead / Room full of people / Room for just one / If I can't break
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GodheadSilo – Walked in Line
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All dressed in uniforms so fine / They drank and killed to pass the time / Wearing the shame of all their crimes / With measured steps, they walked in line / [Chorus] / They walked
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Joy Division – The Kill
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[Verse 1] / Moved in a hired car and I find no way to run / Adds every moment longer, had no time for fun / [Chorus] / Just something that I knew I had to do / But through it all I
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Joy Division – Isolation
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“Isolation” is probably the Joy Division track that is most prophetic of the group’s New Order future, with its relatively upbeat feel and bright-sounding synths. However, the
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Desert Storm – Warsaw
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[Intro] / 3, 5, 0, 1, 2, 5, go! / [Verse 1] / I was there in the back stage / When first light came around / I grew up like a changeling / To win the first time around / I can see
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Stanton Miranda – Love Will Tear Us Apart
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[Verse 1] / When routine bites hard / And ambitions are low / And resentment rides high / But emotions won't grow / And we're changing our ways, taking different roads / [Chorus
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Joy Division – Atrocity Exhibition
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The title of this track comes from J.G. Ballard’s disturbing, surrealistic short story collection The Atrocity Exhibition, which sees a name-changing protagonist creating bizarre
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Girls Against Boys – She's Lost Control
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Confusion in her eyes says it all / She's lost control / And she's clinging to the nearest passer-by / She's lost control / And she gave away the secrets of her past and said / I'
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Face To Face – Interzone
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I walked through the city limits / Attracted by some force within it / Around a corner where some profit lay / A wire fence where the children play / And I was looking for a friend
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Joy Division – Ceremony (rehearsal)
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This is why it's called unnerving / Would you say the same old story? / This is why the wheels are turning / Turn away and turn again this time / Listen now the savior's calling
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Joy Division – Novelty
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Joy Division has stated that this song is about the 1970’s punk scene coming to an end.
All the young generation of that era lived for an ideal, the punk ideal. And now that the
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